Amazon Cloud Player goes live, streams music on your computer and Android
Oh snap! Look who just ate Apple's and Google's lunch here? Amazon has just pushed out its very own music streaming service, dubbed the Amazon Cloud Player. Existing customers can now upload their ...
Amazon's Cloud Service Is A) Legal B) Illegal? C) Probably Here To Stay
Amazon doesn't have paperwork from the music industry approving its new cloud music service. Does it need it? — “Not at all!” says the e-commerce giant. — “Maybe?” says the music industry.
Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web, and Amazon Cloud Player for Android
Buy anywhere, play anywhere and keep all your music in one place — Start with 5 GB of free Cloud Drive storage - upgrade to 20 GB free with purchase of any MP3 album
An Obvious Next Step
I'm a very lucky guy. Over the past twelve years, I've had the good fortune to work on two huge projects that happened to be the right idea at the right time. These ideas attracted brilliant, ideali...
Gmail To Roll Out Ads That Learn From Your Inbox
Gmail is in the process of rolling out a new ad system that could prove to be quite powerful: ads that learn what you're interested in based on your email habits. The feature first showed up in my Gm...
Google Commerce Search 3.0: You won't believe it's online shopping
When we first introduced Google Commerce Search—our search solution for e-commerce websites—our focus was on improving search quality and speed to help online shoppers find what they're looking for.
Nokia files second ITC complaint against Apple
Alleges Apple infringes additional Nokia patents in virtually all products — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has filed a further complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging...
IDC Forecasts Worldwide Smartphone Market to Grow by Nearly 50% in 2011
The worldwide smartphone market is expected to grow 49.2% in 2011 as more consumers and enterprise users turn in their feature phones for smartphones with more advanced features. According to the Int...
Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android, Allowing Users to Take the Power and Customization of Firefox Everywhere
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is excited to release Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android. Firefox delivers an intuitive interface …
How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?
Aside from wondering who will pay more than the cost of a Wall Street Journal subscription in order to subscribe to the New York Times, my biggest question right now is how the NY Times spent a report...
AT&T's T-Mobile Bid Draws New York Attorney General Review
AT&T Inc.'s proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA will undergo a “thorough review” by New York Attorney Eric Schneiderman for possible anti-competitive impact in the state. — AT&T said on Ma...
Official Vimeo for iOS app now available with impressive editing features
Vimeo, one of the first video sharing sites to support HTML5 video alongside YouTube, has finally released its official iOS application. The free Vimeo app lets you upload, manage and watch your Vime...
Facebook Prepares to Add Friends in Washington
Facebook is hoping to do something better and faster than any other technology start-up-turned-Internet superpower. — Befriend Washington. — Facebook has layered its executive, legal, policy and c...
Verizon's Samsung LTE Mobile Hotspot goes on sale: $100 on contract
We'd heard March 31st for this thing, but hey — are we about to complain when it goes on sale early? That would be a definitive “no,” and we're happy to report that Samsung's SCH-LC11 Mobile Hotspot ...
Cheap Beatles Songs = $1 Million Legal Bill
A couple years ago, we learned that you can't take music from the major labels and sell copies of it on your own Web site without a license. Today we learned what happens if you try: a $950,000 penal...
Evernote Makes Web a Priority With New Redesign
Evernote has recently rolled out significant changes to its various mobile and desktop applications (Kevin covered the iPhone update earlier this month). Tuesday, another update brings a new, more ro...
WWDC tickets spotted on eBay for $2,500
The news that WWDC 2011 tickets sold out in a matter of hours left me dumbfounded. Hours, mind you, not days. We're talking a geek conference here folks, not a Lady GaGa show. I'm positive the achi...
Netflix Canada announces new bandwidth management settings for capped users
The second bit of news for Canadian Netflixers in less than 24 hours deals with the other pressing issue facing the service in the Great White North: bandwidth caps. While they exist in the U.S. …
Cisco Buys Cloud Automation And Management Software Company newScale
Cisco this morning announced its intent to acquire newScale, a global provider of self-service and lifecycle management software for enterprise IT and private/hybrid cloud computing. — Terms of the ...